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Queen Victoria's Skull - George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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Queen Victoria's Skull - George Combe and the Mid-Victorian Mind (Hardcover, Illustrated Ed)
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This is a hugely entertaining study that goes beyond biography to
vividly portray Victorian life in a wider framework."Queen
Victoria's Skull" explores the life and thinking of the Edinburgh
phrenologist George Combe. Phrenology is a theory which claims to
be able to detect personality traits, character and predisposition
to criminality on the basis of the shape of the skull. Now
dismissed as risible, it was treated with reverence by many
Victorians.George Combe was the author of "The Constitution of
Man", an ethical treatise that sold over 100,000 copies in Britain
and 200,000 copies in America by 1900. The quirkiness of his life
and work, and the fact that he befriended and influenced many
public figures - from Prince Albert to George Eliot - make for an
engaging story. "Queen Victoria's Skull", however, does more than
tell the tale of one idiosyncratic individual. By tracing the
development of Combe's intellectual interests it provides a prism
through which to view Victorian culture, science and politics,
covering themes of class, religion, sex, crime, art and the
theatre. David Stack has written an entertaining and erudite study
of an important, and now neglected, Victorian figure.
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